that this will be eventually repealed. In fact, I think it is almost a certainly for several reasons.

1. Other entitlements that grew over time were popular when implemented. Obamacare was not passed with any bipartisan support and is not popular with the American public. A recent CBS poll shows people want by a 2-1 margin Obamacare repealed!!!

2. Popular entitlement programs like medicare and social security benefit all 300 million Americans. Everyone is either on these programs or has a parent or grandparent on them. The entitlement also taps into America?s strong sense of individualism ? you pay into it and then collect it. In fact, there are many Americans that believe (although incorrectly) that the money they will collect from social security is simply the government giving them back what they paid it. These entitlements are nothing more than public annuities ? you pay in, and collect on retirement. Obamacare is nothing like this at all. It is a complex web of price controls, regulation, government buracracy, and federal subsidies that will be viewed as an entitlement to only a small percent of the population that does not vote. Most Americans will view this as a tax and a burden ? fining them or unfairly burdening them with buying a product they do not want or need to subsidize other people?s insurance. The only people that will actually receive an entitlement are Medicaid recipients (an unpopular program) and the less than one percent of the population who cannot get insurance due to pre-existing conditions. Senior citizens are going to be hit by this, people who have high deductible consumer friendly insurance will have to give it up for a more expensive policy, other people that have no insurance because they do not want it will have to pay a fine or buy the insurance. And if you think the subsidies are a big deal, consider the fact that between 9 and 10 million people without insurance live in a home with a household income above $75K per year. Subsidies decline as they approach $88K and above that are zero. In other words, a big chuck of those that will face fine or a purchase will not be eligible for any subsidies.

Whatever small goodies exist in the bill that mainstream Americans will benefit from will pale in comparison to the outrage over the sting they will feel from Obamacare. For example, which side of the following debate would you want to be on? Obamacare will allow slacker kids to stay on insurance until they are 26, but senior citizens will see significant cuts and care rationing to pay for it.

3. Demographics are not in the democrats favor. Every day for the next 20 years 10,000 new people will enroll in social security and medicare. Who would you rather have in your corner, senior citizens or medicare recipients?

4. Obamacare will not work. As I heard Governor Pawlenty say at Greta last night, Obamacare is trying to install a 1970s General Motors structure (big bureaucracy, red tape, management layers, etc.) in a global economy with Apple computers and Iphones. This labyrinth of bureaucracy will not lower costs but cause premiums to skyrocket. And everything that goes wrong with healthcare from this point on will be owned by the democratic party.

5. The debt is going to explode. The deficit has become a MAJOR issue among voters which is why Obama announced the mendacious spending freeze and delayed implementation of this program for 4 years. Our deficit this year is expected to be $1.6 trillion, or 11% of GDP and our debt is over 90% of GDP. What triggered Greece?s collapse was that there deficit grew to be over 12% of GDP and their debt over 100%. America can handle more debt than Greece, but only for so long. We all know that congress will not deliver against the assumptions in the CBO report (they never do). Therefore, when we get to 2013 and our government looks out over the next ten years, they will see a staggering amount of debt. Washington is going to get pressure from voters, the Fed, credit rating agencies lowering the credit rating of our debt, the international community (who will stop buying our bonds and will continue to push to replace the US dollar as the reserve currency), etc. Medicare and social security will still be pacing to go bankrupt. When deciding what needs to be cut, repealed, rolled back, etc., what do you think will win out? Raising taxes on middle class? Cutting benefits and rationing care to senior citizens? Or rolling back Obamacare?s unfunded mandates for Medicaid and federal subsidies that only benefit a small percent of Americans who don?t vote and have not even received the benefits because they have not even been implemented yet?

Based on the fact that the public hates this, it will only benefit a few while sting the majority, will not work, and will create crushing debt levels, Congress will have to start rolling it back starting in 2013.

Seriously, I by nature am not an optimist but I highly doubt Obamacare in its current state will survive beyond 2013.